Categorised as a Canterbury High County lake in the Mackenzie Basin, it lies a short distance from Lake Tekapo while also being connected to it.

She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.

it had been a long, hot while since he'd seen anything as nice as this within grabbin' distance.

Southfield schools furnish an old 45-passenger bus ( the heater in which needs repair since some of the children ride a long distance and need the heat ).

These must have been for local calls strictly, as in May 1900 the `` only long distance telephone '' in town was transferred from C. B. Carleton's to Young's shoe store.

However, the book On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, which has long been ascribed to Aristarchus, says that he calculated the distance to the sun to be between 18 and 20 times the distance to the Moon, whereas the true ratio is about 389. 174.

From here the Aar flows northeast for a long distance, past the ambassador town Solothurn ( below which the Grosse Emme flows in on the right ), Aarburg ( where it is joined by the Wigger ), Olten, Aarau, near which is the junction with the Suhre, and Wildegg, where the Hallwiler Aa falls in on the right.

* 1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.

Under the North American Numbering Plan, almost all North American area codes reserve telephone numbers beginning with 958 and 959 for internal local and long distance testing ( respectively ), sometimes called plant testing.

Before the Second World War, air shows were associated with long distance air races, often lasting many days and covering thousands of miles.

For the case of an object that is small compared with the radial distance to its axis of rotation, such as a tin can swinging from a long string or a planet orbiting in a circle around the Sun, the angular momentum can be expressed as its linear momentum,, crossed by its position from the origin, r. Thus, the angular momentum L of a particle with respect to some point of origin is

Before the invention of electronic amplifiers, mechanically coupled carbon microphones were also used as amplifiers in telephone repeaters for long distance service.

In addition to the towns and monuments noted below, the Black Forest is crossed by numerous long distance footpaths, including some of the first to be established.

Many species undertake long distance annual migrations, and many more perform shorter irregular movements.

Early BBSes were often a local phenomenon, as one had to dial into a BBS with a phone line and would have to pay additional long distance charges for a BBS out of the local calling area.

Public long distance coach networks are also often used as a low-cost method of travel by students or young people travelling the world.

* Bertha Benz ( 1849 – 1944 ), German marketing entrepreneur who was the first to drive an automobile for a long distance

The cabal was created in an effort to facilitate reliable propagation of new Usenet posts: While in the 1970s and 1980s many news servers only operated during night time to save on the cost of long distance communication, servers of the backbone cabal were available 24 hours a day.

The distance between P < sub > 0 </ sub > and P < sub > 1 </ sub > determines " how long " the curve moves into direction P < sub > 2 </ sub > before turning towards P < sub > 3 </ sub >.

This was originally to avoid teams and their fans having to travel a long distance to an away game on the day after Christmas Day.

When telegraph messages were the state of the art in rapid long distance communication, elaborate systems of commercial codes that encoded complete phrases into single words ( commonly five-letter groups ) were developed, so that telegraphers became conversant with such " words " as BYOXO (" Are you trying to weasel out of our deal?

Buses are now the main means of long distance transportation in Chile, following the decline of the rail network.

Those benefiting the most are long distance freight services with the French train Havana-Santiago being the only passenger train using one of the new Chinese locomotives regularly.

* Viazul long distance coaches

The earliest examples of color codes in use are for long distance communication by use of flags, as in semaphore communication.

Within an expression containing two or more occurrences in a row of the same associative operator, the order in which the operations are performed does not matter as long as the sequence of the operands is not changed.

As long as the machines were synchronized, the mix would sound more-or-less normal, but if the operator placed his finger on the flange of one of the players ( hence " flanger "), that machine would slow down and its signal would fall out-of-phase with its partner, producing a phasing effect.

The first " rapid firing " firearms were usually similar to the 19th century Gatling gun, which would fire cartridges from a magazine as fast as and as long as the operator turned a crank.

Cycle is repeated as long as the trigger is activated by operator.

It is also known as postfix notation and is parenthesis-free as long as operator arities are fixed.

Before the advent of direct-dialed long distance calls, a subscriber would need to contact the long-distance operator in order to place a toll call.

When calling long distance, the calling party would give the name and city of the person desired, and the operator would advise the calling party to hang up and wait for the call to be completed.

The calling party's long distance operator would time the call for billing purposes.

In the 1960s, once most phone subscribers had direct long-distance dialing, a single type of operator began to serve both the local and long distance functions.

In 2009 the operator Denby Transport designed and built a 25. 25 metre long B-Train ( or B-Double ) semi-trailer truck called the Denby Eco-Link to show the benefits of such a vehicle, which were a reduction in road accidents and result in less road deaths, a reduction in emissions due to the one tractor unit still being used and no further highway investment being required.

As long as the machines were synchronized, the mix would sound more-or-less normal, but if the operator placed his finger on the flange of one of the players ( hence " flanger "), that machine would slow down and its signal would fall out-of-phase with its partner, producing a phasing effect.

This was further rectified — as long as the operator thought necessary — to produce brandy.

While dewatering is occurring, the operator should make sure that the pumpjack is not running too long.

Miles tries to call long distance for help from outside resources, but the phone operator claims that no long-distance calls are possible.

Throughout the developing world, countries where regulation is weak or captured by the dominant operator, restrictions on the use of VoIP are imposed, including in Panama where VoIP is taxed, Guyana where VoIP is prohibited and India where its retail commercial sales is allowed but only for long distance service.

They steal an old sedan from Muriel Everett ( Doro Merande ), the postmistress ; she calls Alice Foss ( Tessie O ' Shea ), the gossipy telephone switchboard operator, and before long, wild rumors throw the entire island into confusion.

A long string of " faced " letters ( i. e. turned to allow the address to be read ) are presented to a keyboard operator at a coding desk who types the postcodes for each destination onto their letter fronts in coloured phosphor dots.

The former railroad crossing at Plymouth's Bull Run ( long disappeared ) was originally called Fuller's Crossing, after the mine operator J. C. Fuller.

* operator services, such as directory assistance, long distance calling, and conference calling assistance ;

Previous to this implementation, after dialling the long distance number, the caller would be intercepted by the operator to request their number before the call proceeded.

A free long distance telephone call ( such as the information operator from another area code ) was made using a regular telephone, and when the line was connected, a 2600 Hz tone from the blue box was fed into the mouthpiece of the telephone, causing the operator to be disconnected and a free long distance line to be available to the blue box user.